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Heartburning   Listen
noun
Heartburning  n.  
1.
(Med.) Same as Heartburn.
2.
Discontent; secret enmity. "The transaction did not fail to leave heartburnings."





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"Heartburning" Quotes from Famous Books



... imparted to the glooms of this region impressed Henchard more than he had expected. The lugubrious harmony of the spot with his domestic situation was too perfect for him, impatient of effects scenes, and adumbrations. It reduced his heartburning to melancholy, and he exclaimed, "Why the deuce did I come here!" He went on past the cottage in which the old local hangman had lived and died, in times before that calling was monopolized over all England by a single ...
— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy
... of slaves was for the ninety and nine by men, and only for the hundredth by laws. There were injustice, oppression, brutality and heartburning in the regime,—but where in the struggling world are these absent? There were also gentleness, kind-hearted friendship and mutual loyalty to a degree hard for him to believe who regards the system with a theorist's eye and a partisan squint. For him on the other hand who has ...
— American Negro Slavery - A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime • Ulrich Bonnell Phillips


Words linked to "Heartburning" :   rancour, bitterness, gall, rancor


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